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From: "Liam Connell" <liam.connell-AT-britishlibrary.net>
Subject: Re: colonialism as penetration
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:51:07 -0000


I have a vague recollection that an essay by Louis Montrose in Greenblatt
ed. _New World Encounters_ discusses early modern personifications of the
Americas as a female native: although I don't recall whether
discovery/conquest is phrased in terms of penetration.  It is certainly
commonplace for descriptions of first landings to personify the landscape
and to employ a language of penetration as a metaphor of navigation right
the way up into the C19th.  An example I am familiar with is RLS'
description of his arrival in the Pacific islands, where 'the cliff yawned,
but now with a deeper entry; and the _Casco_ [his ship], hauling her wind,
began to slide into the bay....'  Whatever confusion of gender may be
apparent here, this could be easily accommodated within a repetitive
metaphor of the penetrative act.  I suspect that Stanley would bear
examination.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark LeVine <mark.levine-AT-iue.it>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 3:22 PM
Subject: colonialism as penetration


> does anyone know of any studies or theories that investigate the notion of
> colonialism and contemporary neo-liberal 'americanization' as an act of
> 'penetration'?
>
> thanks!
> mark levine
>
>
>
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